How to Use egotism in a Sentence

egotism

noun

• In his egotism he thought everyone was coming just to see him.
• His egotism and myopia further blur our view of the larger puzzle.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• In a profession not without egotism and elitism, Vincent was among the friendliest.
  — Joe Lapointe, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2021
• The adjective has been paired with everything from egotism to irony to fascism.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• To its portrait of the perils of complacency, this final scene thus adds a portrait of the egotism of survival.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism.
  — Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2023
• Over the years, his conceit and egotism would cause a string of problems in his personal and professional life.
  — Jonathan Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
• Ford v Ferrari takes the straightforward ethos of car racing—where the winner is whoever is the fastest—and lays bare the egotism and greed required for such a triumph.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2019
• Her stubbornness and egotism helped kick-start and prolong the massive prodemocracy protests of 2019.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 8 May 2022
• The ’80s have long been regarded as a period of unabashed, and at times irredeemable, egotism and excess.
  — Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2017
• Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2017
• As in some of his memorable film roles, De Niro confused small-minded egotism with principle.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2023
• This drives home the underlying claim of the book: egotism was the ultimate reason for polar exploration.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
• As with many Shakespearean characters, Moses’s arc is a fall from idealism to egotism.
  — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
• Alexandra Cunningham does play with the levels of egotism and narcissism.
  — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 17 June 2020
• Laurel wonders quietly about the glee with which Daphne skewers the language-fallible and is struck by her sister’s egotism.
  — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• A Space Odyssey that was the ultimate product of self-annihilating egotism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 30 June 2021
• Broder had not a trace of the disabling egotism, ruthless ambition or partisan zealotry that afflict media stars today.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
• From stage to screen to stream, the vanity, narcissism, and general egotism of actors have always been a reliable source of amusement, especially in the hands of the right satirists.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
• First of all, there's his monumental egotism and tactlessness.
  — SI.com, 10 May 2018
• For Dixie and others who get targeted, the online vitriol comes in all forms: body shaming, gear shaming, charges of egotism and self-promotion.
  — Taylor Gee, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2019
• But the egotism that often drives these endeavors means that what is left behind can, in certain cases, feel more like a monument to one man’s idea of himself than the fruit of a passionate engagement with the arts.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2021
• And last night, Stormy showed us how, by demonstrating what resistance to Trump’s domineering egotism might look like (Congress would do well to emulate Stormy).
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
• But in the arrogance, shallowness, and titanic egotism of his pronouncements, Lennon was only a faint precursor to Kanye West.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• But those admirals—hampered by egotism, greed and envy of one another—squandered every chance to intercept and defeat the fleet of the French naval commander, de Grasse.
  — Alan Taylor, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
• Seeger’s concept of labor renounced the religious idea of good works and Christlike discipleship; it was based in egotism and calls for revolution.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 Apr. 2023
• Much of motherhood literature can radiate a sort of wounded egotism, as if the greatest crime that society might commit against a woman were to think ill of her.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2021
• Too much emphasis on the self can lead to obnoxious egotism, or desperate loneliness or alienation and paranoia.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• Through a combination of hard work on Rachel’s part, greed on Pam’s, rank stupidity on her son’s and a combination of egotism and self-delusion on Frank’s, a bigger story does indeed come to light.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 24 Apr. 2020
• As the nation faces a worsening pandemic and what promises to be the gravest economic downturn since the Great Depression, aggression and egotism cannot carry a nation.
  — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024